List of Famous people born in Sochi, Russia

Vitalia Anatolyevna Diatchenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 71, which she achieved on 17 November 2014. On 21 February 2011, she peaked at No. 60 in the doubles rankings.

Alexander Mikhailovich Zverev is a former professional tennis player from Russia who competed for the Soviet Union.

Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist and liberal politician. Nemtsov was one of the most important figures in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy. He had a successful political career in the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin. From 2000 until his death, he was an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov was assassinated on 27 February 2015, beside his Ukrainian partner Anna Durytska, on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow, with four shots fired from the back. In the weeks before his death, Nemtsov expressed fear that Putin would have him killed. In late June 2017, five Chechen men were found guilty by a jury in a Moscow court for agreeing to kill Nemtsov in exchange for 15 million rubles (US$253,000); neither the identity nor whereabouts of the person who hired them is known.

Sir Andre K. Geim is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Zakhar Yuryevich Pashutin is a retired Russian professional basketball player and basketball coach. At a height of 1.96 m (6'5"), and a weight of 95 kg, he played as a shooting guard. He was also a member of the senior Russian national team, from 1996 to 2008.

Sergey Nikolayevich Galitsky is a Russian billionaire businessman, the founder and co-owner of Magnit, Russia's largest retailer, and president of FC Krasnodar.

Slava Kalistratovich Metreveli was a Soviet and Georgian football player manager.

Evgeniy Yuryevich Pashutin is a retired Russian professional basketball player and currently the head coach for Lokomotiv Kuban of the Russian VTB United League.